Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753440Ab2ECFz6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2012 01:55:58 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f174.google.com ([209.85.217.174]:60080 "EHLO mail-lb0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752388Ab2ECFz5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2012 01:55:57 -0400 Message-ID: <1336024538.2056.1.camel@koala> Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmalloc: add warning in __vmalloc From: Artem Bityutskiy To: Andrew Morton Cc: Minchan Kim , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, rientjes@google.com, Neil Brown , David Woodhouse , "Theodore Ts'o" , Adrian Hunter , Steven Whitehouse , "David S. Miller" , James Morris , Alexander Viro , Sage Weil Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 08:55:38 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20120502124610.175e099c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1335932890-25294-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <20120502124610.175e099c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-eNgnivd47g30r683VV7y" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 (3.2.3-3.fc16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1846 Lines: 49 --=-eNgnivd47g30r683VV7y Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 12:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well. What are we actually doing here? Causing the kernel to spew a > warning due to known-buggy callsites, so that users will report the > warnings, eventually goading maintainers into fixing their stuff. >=20 > This isn't very efficient :( I'll look at UBIFS and UBI - they use vmalloc and probably some of them may be in write-back paths. --=20 Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy --=-eNgnivd47g30r683VV7y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJPoh3aAAoJECmIfjd9wqK0DugQAIW8EaTY4ZaVIylSG+FHCsTH HxRyp9vBXs1a0bl7K0qBLoJbUR0k6WuNGjJVX7hHGtYs3p9Q3CwzRoQrmJ4r377V KKW8d/oDuzCOEycIa9LJqPh5SEcdxRCL1gtaKJ3tFPclntUj9k7MC2if61GdXQuY fhfJIgCeZXu0e7oft8szQMJCi2tmt3QKeZ++KHToy86BHSR5uoG6Mbp+vYYppPhV pkQXK/UhHYsNBEj5Vz7mZx5fNcOpz9EeM6Z7Xo79xi3u+LEn0ugYOABrLfB5zMZG 3ckZEJvOE1egE2/QOv3wD/55VvPTDzD7zpsnMbNQIgUFYwix6G72WTn+ZDxV+4Kc CqiNpJ+4F9s4JVT+GvLS0tgLvJzcvA05x7TGzi7d/WyVsgWJsVVr4Ku4kHcCdWcS bpRFCk3PotHIqbugriW0GRd8hBw0sGtbNzol2ye2tqE2mvvkDXlUSnLKEL/42APE UheXtHFq6w6W4Vt+lNZbuW+JWH0/ga6cI/Zwn2BCwnM2LDpcx3LhAKeaM4vgzwHy ryk8/RlOqgHBOfd3snfaEzk/3v4VM2r3PYDxyV244dOXRO5p2qDBt/KVJ0/6UXb0 VEGX5JXelBnXr9tBU6SHPRDx1AyaNRx9vw2D8oEmYJ/fERyrbQQSUfjEc2WxEKlk 2ok7x2nrfnqnBjjf6OEC =UZEI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-eNgnivd47g30r683VV7y-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/